Orchestra
Orchestra noun - A usually large group of musicians playing together.
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Pit and orchestra are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pit" instead a noun "Orchestra".
Pit
Pit noun - A sunken area forming a separate space.
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- Looney Tunes short "Baton Bunny": Bugs Bunny is conducting an orchestra when he's distracted by a fly and thrashes the pit trying to swat it.
Source: Walking Out on the Show - In Ozy and Millie, Millie comments that the schools pit orchestra isnt good enough to deserve the word pit.
Source: Insult to Rocks -
At the end of "Yankee Doodle" musical segment, Alvin sends a whole bunch of bowling balls that substituted as canons toward Dave, who's in the orchestra pit.
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